Nozawa Now: Saturday 27th December 2025
- Dec 27, 2025
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 50cm
Snowfall at base this season 147cm
Posted on Saturday 27th December 2025 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
I have very good news this morning.
Yesterday really delivered with Nozawa-like snowfall and looking at the JMA maps it appears that this region got the most of the lot.
At 3pm the ski area was reporting this much snow since morning:
Yamabiko: 60cm
Uenotaira: 50cm
Hikage: 40cm
Nagasaka: 40cm
Karasawa: 40cm
And this morning they are reporting an additional:
Yamabiko: 35cm
Uenotaira: 50cm
Hikage: not reporting yet
Nagasaka: not reporting yet
Karasawa: not reporting yet
They seem to be reporting up to 1m of snow up top. Totals below.
Since my report yesterday, I have measured a cool 50cm.
Excellent.
Things can change quickly, and they sure have!
And we have a bit of sunshine early on this morning. It should be a great morning for people heading up the mountain this morning.
From what I can tell early on, more of the mountain is going to be open this morning, but the actual situation is a little unclear. (I'm seeing conflicting info early on).
But bottom line, it's a very good morning.
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Fresh snowfall since yesterday afternoon (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 95cm
Uenotaira: 100cm
Hikage: -
Nagasaka: -
Karasawa: -
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 150cm
Uenotaira: 110cm
Hikage: -
Nagasaka: -
Karasawa: -
Scheduled lift operations:
Details to be updated tomorrow
Scheduled courses available:
Details to be updated tomorrow
Information on the ski area:
Nozawa Now2025-2026 season |
Data as of Saturday 27th December 2025 Total snowfall at base 147cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 11 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 50cm (on 27th December) November 2025 snowfall 15cm reported on 1 day December 2025 snowfall 132cm reported on 10 days |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Nozawa Onsen. The 'new snowfall' number represents the amount of snow measured since the previous report. All opinions are those of the individual reporters. Information regarding ski area operations is manually checked every morning and is believed to be correct at the time of the report.